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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrest of a Federal officer. (search)
Arrest of a Federal officer.
--The Norfolk correspondent of the Petersburg Express makes the subjoined statement:
Commander Boutwell, of the Lincoln Navy, has been arrested and taken to prison in Richmond.
A few days ago this individual came to Norfolk, visited the Navy-Yard and other fortifications, went to the house of a lady relative of his in this city and persuaded her negroes to run off, collected some money here for a relative in Washington City, D. C., and started on the Petersburg train for Richmond.
A telegraphic dispatch, I understand, was sent from here informing on him to the authorities in Richmond, who had him arrested on getting out of the cars.--I am told that he was several days in this city, and that he crossed the Potomac in company with Southern ladies and gentlemen, who did not suspect him of being a spy, knowing as they did that he was a Virginian by birth.
He informed them, I am told, that he had resigned from the Federal Navy, and was coming to N